On this episode of Our American Stories, when the Civil War began, students at Hillsdale College didn't wait to be called. Within hours of President Lincoln's request for volunteers, they formed a military company and offered their services to the Union. By war's end, more than 500 Hillsdale students and alumni had served, four had earned the Medal of Honor, and nearly half had been killed or wounded.

Hillsdale College professor Peter Jennings shares the extraordinary story of the student soldiers who traded classrooms for battlefields, fought in nearly every major campaign of the Civil War, and lived out their college's founding principles of liberty, duty, and sacrifice.

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